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It is built of brick and is one of the finest specimens of Renaissance fortification, and exemplifies especially the transition from the old girdle walls to the system of bastions; it still has round corner towers, not polygonal bastions (Burckhardt).

In the library are the windows of the polygonal apse: 5 groups of 3 lancets divided by shafts with foliage capitals.

The church is a large building comprising a five bay nave with aisles, a tall polygonal apse, and an exceptionally tall clerestory.

The polygonal angle turrets end in crocketed spires, and between them is a big pierced strapwork cresting.

The polygonal angle turrets end in crocketed spires, and between them is a big pierced strapwork cresting.

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The towers themselves must be either round or polygonal. Square towers are sooner shattered by military engines, for the battering rams pound their angles to pieces but in the case of round towers they can do no harm being engaged as it were in driving wedges to their center.